New York City

Personality

Jumaane Williams is ready to be public advocate, assuming there’s a vacancy

Defeated in his bid for lieutenant governor, Jumaane Williams has set his sights on the office of public advocate.

Donald Trump

Policy

Why Donald and Fred Trump got away with it

There is little preventing landlords from operating similar schemes to Trump’s to jack up rents on regulated apartments.

New York City

Policy

What does Universal Rent Control mean?

Democratic primary candidates have struggled to define how they would institute Universal Rent Control.

New York City

Opinion

Homelessness is a housing problem

Rising rents are driving New York City’s latest homelessness crisis. Here’s how to fix it.

New York City

Politics

The Brooklyn boom

Where things stand for Brooklyn's biggest issues.

Housing

Politics

Myrie campaign ad attacks ex-IDC Hamilton’s real estate ties

State Senate candidate Zellnor Myrie is out with his first campaign video, and in it he accuses his rival, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, of being in the pocket of real estate developers.

Bill de Blasio

Policy

Torres critical of federal NYCHA settlement

Some public housing tenants’ advocates applaud, but not the City Council Oversight and Investigations Committee chairman

Housing

Policy

Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission to tackle land use issues

Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission to tackle land use issues and says its focus is broader than campaigns and elections.

New York City

Politics

Why you shouldn’t open your high-rise office windows

New York City is imposing new building regulations starting next year, where all residences, even single-family homes, will have to have ventilation systems.

Bill de Blasio

Politics

Homelessness takes center stage at NYC budget hearing

New York City officials defended the increased funding they have received to combat homelessness and their request for more money to serve the record shelter population, even as they face fresh scrutiny over the use of hotel shelters.

Andrew Cuomo

Politics

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the leftest of them all?

Cynthia Nixon is trying to get to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s left. But is there any space there?

Politics

Housing

5 questions about Shola Olatoye leaving NYCHA, answered

The public housing authority's chairwoman unexpectedly stepped down. Here's why.

New York City

Opinion

Jared Kushner lied to NYC because he could get away with it

The Kushner Cos. filing of false paperwork on rent-regulated units and efforts to expel tenants is a failure of not just the companys integrity, but of state and local law. With the incentive structure of state rent regulations and a two-tiered legal system in which corporations get a slap on the wrist for ripping off the public while the poor go to jail for drug possession, actions like Kushner’s are inevitable.

Politics

Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo takes on guns, NYCHA and the Percoco verdict

Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined students walking out to protest gun violence. Afterward, he took questions from the press on the conviction of Joseph Percoco, his former senior aide.

Housing

Politics

A short-lived shutdown, Howe he did it and no NYCHA apology

The top political headlines, from New Yorkers' role in the short-lived federal shutdown to the latest in the Joe Percoco trial.